SD 79 Technology Standards for Hardware and Software are documented in the district's K-12 Technology Plan. SD79 uses the Mac OS X platform at all elementary and middle schools, and a mixed Windows/Mac OS X environment in secondary schools.
For Tutorials and sample lessons, please visit SD79 IT Resources Website... http://www.sd79.bc.ca/itresources/
Below is a list of the software currently comprising district standard/approved software.
Mac Operating System:
- System Preferences (Speech, Universal Access)
- Managing files
UDL (Universal Design for Learning) Software
- Classroom Suite 4
- Co-Writer
- Kurzweil
Elementary Schools (Mac OS X.4):
- Office Suite: iWorks 08 (Pages, Keynote, Numbers), Notebook 10
- Multimedia: iLife 06/08 (iPhoto, iTunes, GarageBand, iMovie, iDVD), Photobooth (iMac Labs only)
- Multimedia: Kid Pix Deluxe 3X
- Mind Mapping: Kidspiration
- Graphic Novel: Comic Life
- Visual Arts: Seashore
- Browsers: Safari, FireFox
- Screen Capture: Grab
- Auditory: Audacity
- FTP: Fetch
- Web Design: iWeb, Webblender2
- Social Networking: iChat, Classroom Wikkis
Middle Schools (Mac OS X.4 and above):
- Office Suite: iWorks 08 (Pages, Keynote, Numbers), MS Office 2003/2004 (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
- Multimedia (iMac Labs only): iLife 06/08 (iPhoto, iTunes, GarageBand, iMovie, iDVD), Photobooth
- Visual Arts: CS3 (Fireworks, Flash, Dreamweaver)
- Mind Mapping: TBA
- Graphic Novel: Comic Life
- Browsers: Safari, FireFox
- Screen Capture: Grab
- Auditory: Audacity
Secondary Schools (Windows XP & Mac OS X.4 and above):
- Office Suite: iWorks 08 (Pages, Keynote, Numbers), MS Office 2003/2004 (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
- Multimedia (iMac Labs only): iLife 06/08 (iPhoto, iTunes, GarageBand, iMovie, iDVD), Photobooth
- Visual Arts: CS3 (Fireworks, Flash, Dreamweaver)
- Mind Mapping: TBA
- Graphic Novel: Comic Life
- Browsers: Safari, FireFox
- Screen Capture: Grab
- Auditory: Audacity